Forty-nine people on board a Russian passenger jet sought medical assistance after the plane hard landed in the Russian Siberian city of Barnaul on Wednesday, the RIA state news agency reporting, citing local emergency services. (uk.reuters.com) Plus d'info...

While Reuters may point out that 'Safety concerns have plagued Russia’s airline industry since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union', we are not dealing with an iron plane out of the Soviet era, the plane in question being a Boeing 767-300.

You can’t blame the plane. Actually, the Russian safety record ha ALWAYS been abysmal. It’s just that before the collapse of the USSR, the newspapers and other media were not allowed to report air accidents. BTW, Russians have crashed plenty of Airbuses as well.

It seems the 767 does have a propensity for landing gear fires. The last one I found occurred in August 2019 on a US military transport. The plane caught fire in the landing gear area while taxying for take-off. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/shannon-flights-resume-after-fire-on-plane-carrying-us-troops-1.3986905

And another incident in July 19, on a 767:https://www-wmar2news-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/amazon-prime-airplane-has-landing-issue-at-bwi-airport?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&_amp=true&usqp=mq331AQCKAE%3D#aoh=15696579112883&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wmar2news.com%2Fnews%2Flocal-news%2Famazon-prime-airplane-has-landing-issue-at-bwi-airport